Southland’s ‘Open Orchard’ project is about getting a diverse range of old healthy Heritage Fruit trees back in to our Southland communities. We teach people how to care for them prune the trees and graft new ones so they can have the experience of picking fruit from their own trees. This old art is almost lost and we would like future generations to sample the diverse cultural heritage that our colonial forebears thought worthy of bringing to their new homeland 150 years ago. In today’s changing world its good for us to have a supply of locally grown food.